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In the 1960s, the south Wales valleys were ample with automated accouterment factories. Forming the basement of bounded employment, they were accepted for their backbreaking adamantine work, camaraderie, asperity and sexism. Here, in her own words, artisan Terry Jones, 67, explains what it was like to be a branch babe amid 1966 and 1975. Image